Nigel Pickover found holiday happiness – and lots of winter sunshine – onboard a ship from Greece to Turkey, Malta and Spain.

The Mediterranean beckons with a promise that modern life often breaks: time moves differently here. Away from the cruise ...

Ocean temperatures well below freezing in Earth’s deep-past glacial phases imply some very salty waters. At the height of a ...

54- “The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know ...

A new study from the multidisciplinary brain research center at Bar-Ilan University found that jellyfish and sea anemones ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both ...

​​Rivers may seem as old as the hills, but they have life cycles just like other natural features do. Many grow and make ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

Scientists have identified a brand-new species of worm living in the Great Salt Lake, marking only the third known animal ...

Over millions of years, the Earth has evolved rapidly, which led to the draining of many oceans and left behind deserted ...